Sunday, July 30, 2017

World Top 20 June 2017 (Updated)

Manga-styled Prius

Models - Toyota Prius new owner of the Throne

The global EV market continues to grow at rapid pace and, as predicted last month, registrations in June surpassed the 100.000 units, for only the second time ever, representing a 38% growth YoY, with the YTD total up 42%, to over 450k, we are headed for a total sales number this year of around 1,1 million units, the first time the PEV market will reach seven digits in a year.

Interestingly, as June marks the first time the yearly PEV Global market share hits the 1% mark, we can say that Round One of the Electrification Game has been won, six and a half years later.

Anyway, back to Earth, 2017, in the models ranking, the Best Seller of the Month was the Tesla Model S, thanks to the usual last-month-of-the-quarter-peak (6.157 units), winning for the first time this year the Best Seller Of The Month award, but the real news was the rise to power of a nameplate that not long ago was thought to be doomed by its rulers, due to Mad Cow Fuell Cell disease.

Turns out Toyota has recovered from the disease and betted heavily on the Second Generation Prius PHEV, not only providing it with decent specs and less divisive looks regarding the standard Prius, but also competitive pricing (At least until the Ioniq PHEV starts to make itself noticed, but that's another story to be written in future editions), and production capability (Hear that, Chevrolet?), allowing it to sit for the first time ever in the PEV Iron Throne, with around 27.000 units in six months, which is almost as much units as it had in the whole year of 2012, its best sales year to date.

Looking below in the ranking, the other podium bearers are not too far from the Top Spot, while in #5 .we see the first position change, with the Zhidou D2 EV (4.714 deliveries, new record) surpassing the BAIC EC180, becoming also the highest ranked Chinese model.

As this is a special edition, we dig a little deeper, into the Top 20, where we can see seven Chinese models (#11 BYD e5, #13 SAIC eRX5, #14 JAC iEV6S, #15 Geely Emgrand EV, #16 BYD Tang, #18 BYD Song PHEV and #19 Chery eQ), making it nine models coming from China in the Top 20.

Thanks to a slow (Some say "snail paced"), but steady production increase, the Chevrolet Bolt it's starting to appear on the radar, in #12, so expect the long range Small MPVCUV/Compact Car to climb to the Top 10 later in the year.

Comparing with last year, while some models climbed positions, like the aforementioned Prius, or the Chinese Zhidou D2 EV and BAIC EC180, others dropped significantly, none more so than the BYD Tang, #16 now, when last year it ended in #3. Not enough rich people willing to buy an expensive BYD?

Other models dropping were the Chevrolet Volt, down from #4 to #9, or the Outlander PHEV (From #5 to #10, is it starting to become passé?).

In the Rookie section, we see two new models showing up, both Chinese compact PHEV SUV's, with the #13 Roewe eRX5 momentarily outrunning the #18 BYD Song PHEV. Are we witnessing the making of a new rivalry?

Looking at the BEV / PHEV breakdown, BEV's are once again leading the race with 64% share, exactly the same number as it ended in 2016.

Pl

WORLD

June

YTD

%

'16Pl

1

Toyota Prius Prime/PHV

6.038

26.867

6

64

2

Nissan Leaf

4.647

26.591

6

1

3

Tesla Model S

6.157

25.450

6

2

4
5
6

Tesla Model XZhidou D2 EVBAIC EC180

4.684
4.714
2.563

21.55018.69317.939

5
4
4

7
32

42

7

Renault Zoe

4.251

17.324

4

8

8

BMW i3

2.387

14.531

3

6

9

Chevrolet Volt

2.286

13.391

3

4

10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20

Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV

BYD e5

Chevrolet Bolt (1)

SAIC Roewe eRX5 PHEV

JAC iEV6S

Geely Emgrand EV

BYD TangHyundai Ioniq Electric
BMW 330e
BYD Song PHEV

Chery eQ

1.986
3.206
2.223
1.541
3.001
478
1.573
1.314
1.423
4.552
3.466

12.78710.8569.4409.2058.1977.9827.5027.2097.1246.8386.605

3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1

5
17

83
N/A
61
13
3
38
27
N/A
15

TOTAL

100.918

452.329

(1) - Includes Opel Ampera-e

Manufacturers - BYD Rises to Third

BYD has set an ambitious goal of doubling sales regarding 2016, and after a slow start, the Chinese brand is pushing hard to reach its own goals, in June it delivered a record 11.198 units, allowing it to jump two positions to Third.Will BYD beat its own record in July? It all points to that, the question will be by how much, and will it be able to beat the all time record of 14.029 deliveries, set by Tesla last March.

My bet is that BYD will only be able to do it in September...The month it should reach the yearly leadership.

As this is a Full Year edition, we dig a littler deeper into the Top 20, where we see Zotye in an unusually low #14, with Ford and Chery also dropping significantly, while Hyundai shows up for the first time, in #17, expect both Hyundai and sister brand Kia to continue climbing in the ranking in the near future, as they expand production capacity and product lines.

Pl

WORLD

June

YTD

%

'16Pl

1

Tesla

10.841

47.000

10

2

2

BMW

8.815

41.715

9

3

3

BYD

11.198

34.802

8

1

4

BAIC

5.147

30.151

7

5

5
6
7

Nissan
Toyota
Chevrolet

5.059
6.038

4.510

29.055
26.920

22.847

6
6
5

4
30
8

8

Renault

4.699

19.549

4

10

9

Zhidou

4.714

18.718

4

14

10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20

Volkswagen
Mitsubishi
Mercedes

SAIC RoeweZotye
FordJMCHyundaiChery

JAC
Audi

3.565
2.255
2.744
2.367
3.743
1.818
2.102
2.013
3.466
3.001
1.760

16.42714.83114.14313.77012.83710.86410.56710.2329.4259.4018.562

4
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2

6
9
13157
11
19
24
12
16
20

Looking at current segment leaders:

A Segment / City Cars - Zhidou D2 EV and BAIC EC180 are doing their own race for #1;

7 comments:

If you add up Opel Ampera-e and Chevrolet Bolt because they come from the same factory, it would only be fair to add up C-Zero, Ion and I-MiEV too, because they too come out of the same factory (Mizuma Plant).